Re: What does charset in locale setting affect?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:32:48 -0400, Dan B. wrote:

> In a locale setting such as en_US.UTF-8 (e.g., LANG=en_US.UTF-8), what
> exactly does the charset/character encoding part (UTF-8) affect?
> 
> Which common programs (e.g., getty, xterm/etc., sed/grep?) do something
> different based on the charset portion of the local setting?

Debian's Reference Manual has a small section about that ("8.3.2. 
Rationale for UTF-8 locale"):

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch08.en.html

Anyway, it seems that today everything and everybody is moving towards 
unicode and utf-8.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón